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Kolontár, 4 October 2010. A dam at a Hungarian aluminium factory near Kolontár broke. Approximately 1.5 million cubic metres of alkaline red sludge and water were released with disastrous consequences: 10 people died, hundreds of hectares of agricultural land were contaminated. One year after these events, we collected information on the current environmental conditions in the area. As an ongoing effort, the Accident Prevention and Control Expert Group of the ICPDR continues its work to avoid or mitigate such disasters in the future.

ICPDR Danube Watch: 'Get active for the rivers!' was the call for Danube
Day 2010 and was a theme that people took ‘onboard’
and ran with! We danced, sang, canoed,
climbed, swam, cooked, explored and rapped
for the rivers. The river came to the street
and school went to the Danube. We
celebrated by being active and
by taking action.

ICPDR Danube Watch: The ‘Troubled Waters’
exhibition, now making
its way around the world,
captures the wide range of
water challenges – from
floods to droughts.